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Saturday, Nov. 23rd. The u titz Record-Express
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Vol. LXVII Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., November 14, 1946 No. 50
Legion Starts
Membership
Drive Here
Garden Spot Post Hopes
To Double Enrollment;
Plan Special Activities
Garden Spot Post 56, American
Legion held a very successful
meeting on Tuesday evening in
the Enck building, 55 member
being present.
The building committee rep o rt­ed
splendid progress on renovat­ing
the building recently p u r­chased
by the Post a t 109 North
Broad Street.
The Membership committee,
Donlad Derby, chairman, mapped
out a complete coverage of th e
vicinity for members to solicit
membership from all who are
eligible, or in other words anybody
who has served in the armed
forces between the periods of
Dec. 7, 1941 to Sept* 2, 1945 is
eliigfole to belong, and the object
is to double the membership by
the December meeting if every­body
on the membership commit­tee
and all members do their
part. (Bead the large ad on page
3 sponsored by public spirited
citizens of the community.
The Special Activities Commit­tee
which is composed of Harry
Grubb, chairman, Howard Red-cay,
Mahlon Young, Richard Rad­er,
Norman Habecker, Ford
Gochenaur, John Heistand have
planned an activity which will
assist the finances of the Post
and 'an y member who has not
been contactted can secure details
by contacting any member of the
eommitttee or John Heistand a t
Neff & Heistand or Richard Radter
a t the Weldwood Restaurant.
HEADS CAMPAIGN
Richard Oblender who has been
appointed chairman of the 19V17
fund raising campaign of the
Lancaster General Hospital ail’d
who has served on the hospital
board for the p ast ten years.
All-Community
Meeting Here
Monday Night
Woman’s Club Sponsoring
Program On Youth Guid­ance
And Adult Ed
Changes Are j
Announced By (
Trap Company
Zahm Resigns As Supt; M.
A. Hop! Named To
Succed Him
TO SPEAK HERE
C. M. Woolworth, president o f 1
the Animal Trap Company, an­nounced
the following organiza­tional
changes effective last Mon­day.
M. A. Hopf, formerly head of
the Industrial Engineering De­partment,
to become factory sup­erintendent.
Mr. Hopf joined the
Company in 1943. During this
time he was affiliated with the or­ganization
in various capacities,
having recently been head of the
Industrial Engineering Depart­ment.
J. D. Zahm, one of the oldest
employees, started with the Com- ; --------
pany on July 26, 1918. During 5|10w Colored Motion
this time he has held numerous :
positions and has contributed1 to i
the growth of the organization, j
Although Mr. Zahm has resigend ;
as superintendent, he will continue j “South along the Suwanee
in a consulting eapaciity, giving River,” will be the topic of an
the same untiring efforts and co- j address to be delivered1 ini Fel-operation
as he has given In the ]0wsbjp Hall Tuesday evening by
Bob Peiffer
Now Stationed
In Phillie
Philadelphia, Pa. — M-Sgt. Ro­bert
Demmy Peiffer, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John L. Peiffer, 15 West
Orange ,St., Lititz, Pa., is station­ed
in Philadelphia as Chief Clerk
of the Oragnized Reserve Divis­ion
of the Eastern Pennsylvania
Military District.
Before coming to his present,
post, MnSgt. Peiffer was stationed
iwith U. S. troops in Nome, Alas­ka,
as a Quartermaster Corps
major. In March 1946, he returned
to inactive officer status and re­enlisted
in the Army as a firs t
grader. . . „
Overseas fo r more than two
years, M-Sgt. Peiffer wears a b a t­tle
sta r for the Kiska Occupation
in th e Aleutian Campaign, th e
Aemrixjan Defense Ribbon, th e
Good Conduct Medal, the Ameri­can
Theater Ribbon, the Asiatic-
Pacific Campaign Ribbon with one
star, the World War II Victory
Medal, the Army Commendation
Ribbon and the Meritorious Ser­vice
Unit Insignia.
Before the outbreak of World
War II, M-Sgt. Peiffer served in
the Panama Canal Zone for two
years. He was commissioned a
second Lieutenant in the Quarter­master
Corps in October 1942, a f­te
r graduating from the QMC
Officers Candidate School at Camp
Lee, Virginia.
A graduate of Lititz High
School, M-Sgt. Peiffer first enlist­ed
in the Army in 1936. He now
resides a t 37|.l Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, with his wife, Mary
Lilia, and three-year-old son, Ro­b
ert H.
ALLAN D. CRUICKSHANK
Cruickshank
Will Present
Lecture Tues.
Pictures At Felowship
Hall; Public Invited
past.
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100 To Attend
Convention
Here Friday
St. Paul’s Church To Be
Host To E. Penna. Con­ference
of Lutheran
Brotherhood
The Lititz Woman’s Club will
sponsor a community wide prog­ram
on Youth Guidance and Ad­u
lt Education to be held in the
Lititz High School Auditorium,
Monday evening, November 18, at
8:00 o’clock. The public is urged
to attend, admission will be free.
The speaker will be Mrs. Dor­othy
Waldo Phillips, lecturer and
youth counselor, of Landsdowne.
Her topic will be, “Have You Met
‘The Other Half’ Of The Child?”
Mrs. Phillips was educated in
English schools and a t the College
of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, spec­ializing
in the field1 of child psy­chology,
youth guidance and p a r­ent
education. She has been con­ductor
of Youth Forums and Pan­els
in many states and is a mem­ber
of the faculty of Mary Lyon
Junior College, Swarthmore, teach­ing
Human Relations and Effect­ive
¡Speech Courses.
Mrs. Phillips has traveled1 ex­tensively
in Europe, China, Japan
i and the Phillipines and was ap­pointed
Federal Counselor in the
i Department of Public Instruction ^ s win be made by the
for the Commonwealth of Penns- - — —
Approximately ICO men from
Eastern Penna. and South Jersey
are expected here tomorrow to a t­tend
the convention of the East
Penna. Conference Brotherhood
of the United Lutheran church
which will be held in the a fte r­noon
and evening in St. Paul’s
Lutheran church.
During the afternoon action will
be taken on items referred to the
convention by. the National Con­vention,
officers will be elected
Allan D. Cruickshank, nationally-i
famous ornithologist, a t a public
! meeting being sponsored by the
| Lititz Bird Club.
The lecture covers an .intensive
j study of bird life from the source
j of the Suwanee River in the land
j of the "trembling ea rth ” in the
■ great Wildlife Refuse of Okefino-
, lcee to its mouth some 250 miles to
j the southwest on the Gulf of
j Mexico.
Brilliant natural color motion
pictures, both weird and beautiful,
will be revealed in the illustrated
lecture. It features unusual shots
of alligators, snakes, turtles, frogs,
insects and flowers and will make
this a magnificant lecture for all
who enjoy the out-of-doors.
Gen. Strickler Gives
Doughboys Full Credit
Boro Refuses
Request Of
Dr. Stengel
Council Cites Three Rea­sons
For Not Covering
Waterway j
At a special meeting held Mon­day
evening, members of borough
council flatly turned down a re ­quest
made ten days ago by Dr.
F. W. Stengel for the construc­tion
of a covered storm sewer
across a meadow recntly purchas­ed
by Linden Hall. |
During a discussion of the r e ­quest,
memJbers of council pointed
out th a t the projected sewer
could not he placed across the
meadow a t Cherry and North Al­ley,
where the present storm sew­er
ends, fo r three reasons, to wit:
(1) Placing of the storm sewer
would mean spending public funds
for the improvement of private
property.
(12) Damage might (occur iif
through the construction of the
covered main, storm watter would
be hacked up and caused to flood
othter pvopertties.
; (3) The present course of the
j water over what was formerly
j known as the Yoder meadow has ^
always been a natural waterway
which the borough has no author-
! ity to change. \
( In appearing before council re-
; cently, Dr. Stengel explained that
Liniden Hall had purchased the
tr a c t for th epurpose of construe- ,
tiing a horse stable and riding
ring for the use of Lnden Hall
students. 1
Before the stable can he built, ,
he declared, the waterway must ,
be placed underground in ordter
th a t the ¡building could he placed
above. At th a t time he offered
he borough to finance the project,
providiing the borough agreed to
re-pay Linden Hall over the course
of a few years. '
Counciil a t no time considered ,
this offer, however. '
GIBBEL PRESENTS KEY TO VETERANS Girl Scout
Drive Will
Start Monday
i Seek $75,000 In County To
j Complete Permanent
Camp Near Brickerville
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Henry B. Gibbel, o f this borough, a member of the boa ltd of tru s t­ees
of Juniata College, Huntingdno, is shown above officisiting at a
ceremony iu which a complete village located on the edge e.i th.*
Juniata College campus was turned over to former veie.uns’ no.\
enrolled there. Officiaily known as ‘ The Village,” the community vet­erans’
housing project was formally presented to Thomas J. Boyd, Jr.,
center, representing the 265 veterans on the campus, by Mr. Gibbel,
shown at the right. At the left is C. Leslie Wier of the Federal Public
Housing Authority.
Seek Pilot
Who Flew
Low Here
State And Local Police
Investigate Dangerous
Low Flying
Camera Club
Hears Talk
By Bill Light
Various Committees Are
Appointed; Club Plans
To Hold Hikes
ylvaniia.
i Rev. G. E. MeCamey and Win. R.
Spangler, tooth of Consbocken,
George H. Burchfield, of Neffs-ville,
and the Rev. Charles F.
Trunk, the pastor of St. P au l’s.
Mr. Spangler is the president of
the Brotherhood.
At 5:45 a banouet will be served
and the convention will conclude
Vacation dates for Thanksgiving with a service in the church at
and Christmas Iwieire set a t the 7:30. The°neaker will be the Rev
iMrs. Ellsworth McMullen will
introduce the speaker and the
Club Chorus will sing.
SCHOOL ANUDIT1YCES
VACATION DATES
DRY CLEANING SERVICE
OPENS ITS DOORS HERE
A new dry cleaning and pressing
establishment opened its doors
here this week a t 6 Soutth Broad
Stre et and will toe known as the
Wolper’s Dry Cleaning Service.
The pew business is toeing operated
by Harry Wolpert, Jr., of Lancas­ter,
who serve dthree years with
the Army Air Corps. In addition
to the local store, Wolpert opera­t
e s a cleaning establishment a t
Leacock, Pa.
meeting of the School ¡Board on
Wednesday evening. Thanksgiving
vacation will be November 28 and
29 and Christmas vacation will be­gin
on December 20 until January
6.
P lan s m i l for installing four
heaters in the building during the
¡Christmas vacation to replace the
eight heaters now in use.
Tuition rates were iset -at $6.20
per month for grades one to six
To the doughboy, the infantry­man
who faces anything th a t comes^
toward him, goes the credit of
winning the war, Brigadier Gen­eral
Daniiel B. Strickler, rec-ently
elected lieutenant governor of the
state, informed members of the lo­cal
Rotary Club Tuesday evening.
“The American staff and the
American generals did a good job ¡
in plotting out the campaigns in
Europe but all of this planning
would have meant nothing if it had
not been for the stand the dough­boys
made in facing what appear­ed
to be insurmountable odds,” he
William Van Horn Davies, Jr., of declared.
Harrisburg, who formerly assist­ed
Dr. Paul E. -Scheerer, widely-known
radio speaker in New York.
'Robert J. Hanna, president of
the ¡St. Paul’s Ushers Association,
is in charge of arrangements for
tth e convention and the dinner is
being served toy the Young Wo­men’s
Missionary Society.
Thanksgiving Service
An early Thanksgiving Day
and $9.00 for grades
twelve.
seven -to service again fs -being planned for
St, Paul’s.
Pretzels In Third Place
After Victory At Neffsville
By The Sports Editor
Coach Larry Umstead’s re­bounding
Red and Black gridders
ruined Homecomiing Day fo r a
turbulent throng of Manheim Twp.
rooters last Saturday when they
slapped a 26-13 defeat on Paul
Wlenrich’s boys.
Bob Bushong, who has played a
lot of end for the Pretzels this
year snagged two touchdown aer­ials
to lead the scoring parade.
Stan Schoeneberger, Joe Bender
and the injured F a t Hamiker
joined the line of march with Stan
and Joe con-tritoutiing six-pointers
and' F a t booting two points after
touchdown.
The battle marked the la st time
eleven members of the squad will
don the moleskins for the local
high school including Jackson
Waltz, Joe Bender, Stan -Schoene-berger,
Jimmy Johnson, F a t Ha-maker,
Dick Leed, Bob Heagy,
Bob Bomber.ger, Harry E’shleman,
Boh Bushong and Jean de P e rro t
The five scalps hung on the vic­tory
belt this season ran the three
season total to 20 wins against
five losses and two ties. A three
season record unequaled in P re tz ­el
history of football.
The locals looked impressive in
the ir last ¡contest and played in­spired
ball to top a team th a t only
a week previous had beaten Red
Lion 7-6. The Townshi-ppers never
had a chance when Bender on the
third play from scrimmage ramb­led
63 yards for a score. From
(continued on -page 10)
Describing some of his exper­iences
in leading troops into the
Ziegfried line at the German bor­der,
General Strickler told of the
first onslaught of Germans in the
Battle of the Bulge which he and
a small group of 5,000 men a t­tempted
tohold and did hold for
several days.
Finally when the enemy had
flanked hi sposition a distance of
35 miles 'and his forces had been
cut to 500 men, each officer and
ten men formed groups and en­deavored
to reach the American
lines. Only a few succeeded,
General Strickler asserted.
He was introduced by John
Hershey, chairman of the program.
Biemesderfer '
Addresses !
Warwick PTA
-Dr. D. Luke Biemesderfer,
ipresidetnt of Mpllersville State
Teachers College came home to
Warwick Township on Monday
evening tospeak. to the Parent
Teachers Association on “The
Understanding Necessary -between
Teacher and Parents to produce
the best possible education for
the students of our schools.
Dr. Biemesderfer said in part,
“teachers should learn to know
the homes of th e ir'p u p ils, their
environment, and psychology and
it is the obligation of the parent
to -get acquainted -with the teacher
and learn of her efforts with the
children. Only thus can we learn
tolerance on a local scale and
hope for it on a world wide basis
such as a successful United Na-tiodns
would be.”
W. Martin Muth, the president,
was in charge and Lois Martin,
accompanied by Marian Ditzler
presented several -baritone solos.
Group singing was led by Charles
Zook.
¡State Police stationed a t Lari
caster were continuing the ir in
vestigation th is week in the low,
roof-top flying of a plane which
'thoroughly disrupted jlhe peace
o-f the borough last Sunday a fte r­noon.
According to Chief of Police
Kreider, nearly a dozen angered
complaints were received here in
addition to four phoned to State
Police in Lancaster a t the time
of the low flying. R e sid e n t^ of
the vicinity of -Spruce and Orange
Streets claimed the flier repeated­ly
zoomed from a considerable
heighth to a point ju st a few feet
above houses there.
-Nearby airports all denied th a t
the plane, a black Army tra in ­ing
craft, had come from any port
in this vicinity. Efforts to obtain
information from the airport- at
Md-dletown had not as yet revealed
the name of the flier.
PAPER COLLECTION
ON NOVEMBER 23rd
A borough-wide paper collection
will be made here on Saturday,
November 23, local Boy Scout
leaders announced this week. In
case of rain, the paper w-ill he
gathered on the following Satur­day,
November 30-, Donors were
asked to place bundles of pa-per at
the curb prior to 1 p. m.
RUMMAGE SALE
The Barbara Snyder Class of
the Moravian Sunday School will
hold a rummage sale in the Fire
House on F rid ay and Saturday,
November 15 and -16.
HUNT WILD TURKEYS
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A group consisting of Abe and
John Hershey and Paul Minnich
left here Tuesday night to spend
two days hunting wild turkeys in
Snyder County. They will return
late today.
The November meeting ' of the
Lititz Springs Cam-era Club was
held in the Nature Den at the
Lititz Recreation Cener on Mon­day.
Bill Light gave a very inte rest­ing
talk on his experiences in
photography while in the service.
He told the club how sections of
tth e country were mapped, various
methods used in the service and
showed many fine pictures.
The Lititz Springs Camera Club
is now a m-ember of The Photo­graphic
-Society of America. The
P. S. A. is a national organization
for the promotion of photography.
It covers the entire country with
over 5,000 members and the lead­ing
phottographic clubs and so­cieties.
The local -club has rented
the third floor of the Young -Men’s
Business League where a studio,
lounge and exhibition room will
be a t -the clulb members disposal at
all times. From time to time the
club will have on exhibition in
these rooms ¡pictures made by the
leading photographers and clubs
in the country.
fCon-tinued on Page 6)
FAT COLLECTION
Girl Scout Troop
Is Formed Here
The new Girl Scout Troop No.
123 is having a registration cere­mony
in their meeting room a t
the Recreatiton Center on Wed­nesday,
November 20, at 8 p. m.
Troop 123 has elected temporary
officers: they are Peggy Risser,
troop chairman, Joan Reist, secre­ta
ry and Audry Risser treasurer.
Ruth De Wald has ¡been appointed
Public Relations Officer.
The volunteer troop leaders are
-Mrs. John Bad'orf and Mrs. Earl
Reist.
The newly formed Troop has en­tered
into the community life of
-Lititz with the idea of helpful act­ivities
fo r girls between the ages
of 10 and 13.
Ruth De Wald.
Troop 12-2 of the Girl Scouts ¡will
collect fats on Saturday, Novem­ber
30, starting a t 9 a. m. Fats
should -be placed at the curb.
FRACTURES TOE
Norman Badorf, well-known
local shoe manufacturer, was hob­bling
around on crutches this
week as a result of having frac­tured
a toe of his right foot when
he stumbled into a vacuum clean­er
a t his home Tuesday night,
November 5.
'Lititz will play 'tan important
-part in the campaign to raise
$75,000 to equip and establish the
newly-p-urchased Girl Scout Camp
north of Brickerville, according
to plans completed here tod’ay.
The local drive seeks to raise
$3,0-00 in Lititz and vicinity and
is part of a countywide drive
'being staged by the Lancaster
County Girl Scout Council. The
campaign will continue until Dec­ember
15.
Frank M. Hunter, Frank Longe-necker
and Rev. Charles F. Trunk
have been named members of the
corporate, mercantile and special
gifts committee and this commit­tee
will begin its work immediate­ly,
it was announced.
Mrs. Willy dePerrot has been
named chairman of the house-to-house
canvas which will be s ta rt­ed
Monday morning. Her commit­tee
conssits of the following wo­men:
Mrs. Earl Reist, Mrs. John Bad-orf,
Mrs. William Whitten, Mr-s.
Winifred Walls, Miss Helen Bend­er,
Miss Geraldine Hbllinger, Mrs.
Harold Girvin, Mrs. Hiram Eber-ly,
Mrs. Clyde O. Benner, Mrs.
James Yerger, Mrs. John Steffy,
Mrs. Russell Templeton, Mrs.
Leon Risser, Mrs. Roy Schaffstall,
Mrs. Edwin Slosser, Mrs. Charles
Kopp, Mrs. Ray Wagner and Mrs.
H. Felicia Deverter.
The new 68-acre camp site was
purchased with some of the $9,000
raised toy Girl Scouts through sale,
of kitchen fats collected here since
January ¡1943.
The camp is located on the
“Horseshoe Trail” between Brick­erville
and Denver, near the Leb­anon
county line. It is 24 miles
almost due north of Lancaster,
$30,000 of the $75,o00 drive
quota have been allocated’ for
developing the permanent camp
site. '
That will include bu-ildin g a
shower house and laundry, a din­ing
hall and kitchen, an ifirmary,
a swimming pool, platform, tent
an-d’ beds, and a unit house.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
WILL MEET WEDNESDAY
The Lititz Chamber of Com­merce
will hold its November
meeting onWedhesday ni-ght, the
20th, in the Lititz Recreation Cen­ter.
The meeting ill s ta rt promp­tly
a t 8 and a fea ture will be the
report of the nominating commit­tee.
Following the meeting there
will be a lunch.
¡Members are asked to note the
change of the meeting time from
Tuesday to Wednesday.
Uncontrolled Fire Bums
For Over A Month Here
Believe it or not - but Lititz
has had a fire burning, and burn­ing
real coal at that, for the past
month.
The fire is located beneath the
track bed of the Reading Railroad
a t a point just east of the H. T.
Muth coal and lumber yard' a t the
eastern end of the -borough. With
clouds of smoke pouring from the
underground fire for the past six
or more weeks, local firemen were
again called to the scene Tuesday
night hut failed in their efforts to
extinguish th e blaze.
The fire started originally when
some old wooden ties were tossed
off «the railroad track bed and
burned'. The -fire, however, spread
to beneath the track bed where
it has been burning since. v
According to old-timers here,
a number of fre ight cars loaded
with coal -were wrecked at the
same site many years ago and it
I is thought th a t several tons of
! coal remain beneath the present
road bed.
Earlier this week, railroad
workmen dug twotrenches on each
side of the steel rails. Tuesday
night local firemen pouring thou­sands
of gallons of w ater into
these trenches in the hope that
tthe water would seep down and
extinguish the fire.
Today, however, the fire was
still smoking away and it was
planned to call firemen to the
scene once more.
In the meantime, railroad of­ficials
were checking condition of
the roadbed to make certain that
it has not been undermined suffi­ciently
to cause a possible wreck.
Plans Progressing
For Community Supper
Plans were progressing rapidly
this week for the Community-wide
Thanksgiving Covered Dish Sup­per
to be held in the Recreation
Center on Saturday evening, Nov.
23.
Appeals to the public to attend
were being made by various or­ganizations
of town and in d ic a ­tions
of a large attendance were
in evidence. Mrs. Samuel Krane
was busily engaged with other
members of the Co-ordinating
Council of the Center in planning
an unusual program for the event.
“We hope th a t this will be the
first of a series of very success­ful
community-wide affairs and
th a t this can grow into a real
worth - while project,” David
Wright, head of ¡the group declar­ed.
RUMMAGE SALE
The American Legion Auxiliary
will hold a rummage sale a t 82%
South Duke Street, Lancaster,
Saturday, November 23 and the
following Monday and Tuesday.
Persons desiring to donate cloth­ing
can bring them to the fire
house on Friday, November 22.